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...average temperature in the U.S. has risen 2°F over the past 50 years. If carbon emissions are not reduced, it may climb as much as 11?? more...
...were just about the economy, mate, then Australian Prime Minister John Howard would win his country's upcoming election in a walkover. GDP has grown in each of Howard's 11??years in office, and unemployment is at a 33-year low. Yet barring a last-minute shift before polls open on Nov. 24, Howard will be replaced in Canberra, the nation's capital, by Kevin Rudd, leader of the opposition Labor Party--and climate change will be one of the central reasons...
...increase, leaving the U.S. more dependent on Middle Eastern crude. Americans are also weathering an exceptionally cold winter, which is boosting demand for heating oil. At the gas pump, the average price of regular unleaded gasoline is $1.53 per gal., up 43¢ from the price 12 months ago and 11?? just since Jan. 1. To make matters worse, U.S. commercial oil stocks are near their lowest levels ever. As war seems increasingly likely, some major questions loom...
...becomes the kind of deadly bomb that shook Oklahoma City last week. The U.S. makes 8 million tons of the white crystalline compound each year, and it is widely available in gardening centers, supply warehouses and at construction sites. But just because anyone can buy ammonium nitrate for about 11?? a pound doesn't mean that anyone can make it explode at a particular time and place. The act of terror that demolished the Murrah building and destroyed scores of human lives required a basic understanding of chemistry, skill at bombmaking and some technical know-how to jury...
Leakey and her team compared the footprints with some left 80,000 years ago by Neanderthal man, generally accepted as the earliest human prints. Only about 15 cm (6 in.) long, but 11?? cm (4½ in.) across?much wider than either those of Neanderthal or modern man?the Laetolil markings indicate a manlike primate about 1.2 meters (4 ft.) tall that probably walked with what Leakey calls "a slow, rolling gait," like a chimpanzee's. Though there were many animal tracks nearby ?including some of knuckle-walking apes?Leakey is "75% certain" that the prints were those...